Manipulative User Research Earns Facebook a Shiner

Once again, Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over privacy. This time, hackles have been raised by publication of a study for which t...

Linux Mint 17: Fresh and Long-Lasting

Linux Mint 17, dubbed "Qiana," is one of the best releases from this community since Linux Mint 13 arrived in 2012 with the Cinn...

In 'The Internet's Own Boy,' the Good Guy Doesn't Win

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz , a documentary directed and produced by Brian Knappenberger, is opening at theaters...

The Big Winners at Google I/O 2014

At last week's Google I/O, Nvidia was the big winner. It was showcased in TVs, mobile devices and automotive as the supplier of a key ...

Facebook, NY DA Lock Horns Over User Data Warrants

Facebook, not known for respecting users' privacy, is battling a New York County district attorney's demand for all information pe...

Google's GAL Makes Glowing I/O Debut

One of the many notable things to come out of Google's I/O conference this week was the announcement that 40 new auto industry compani...

In 'The Internet's Own Boy,' the Good Guy Doesn't Win

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz , a documentary directed and produced by Brian Knappenberger, is opening at theaters...

Facebook, NY DA Lock Horns Over User Data Warrants

Facebook, not known for respecting users' privacy, is battling a New York County district attorney's demand for all information pe...

Google's GAL Makes Glowing I/O Debut

One of the many notable things to come out of Google's I/O conference this week was the announcement that 40 new auto industry compani...

Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion, Compressor and MainStage Pro Apps

In what is surely a release timed (at least partially) to reassure pro users that they are still paying attention to them, Apple has release...

Apple To Cease Development Of Aperture And Transition Users To Photos For OS X

With the release of OS X Yosemite later this year, Apple will cease the development of its ‘pro’ photo editing app Aperture. Users of that p...

The Next iPhone Is a Naming Catastrophe Waiting to Happen

I can't help but wonder how the heck Apple is going to name its new iPhone lineup when it debuts this fall. Make no mistake, the namin...

Google Worms Its Way Into Nest

Google-owned Nest Labs, maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, this week launched a developer program along with partnerships tha...

No Cellphone Search Without Warrant, Supreme Court Rules

Police need a warrant to search the cellphone contents of people they have arrested, the United States Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Warr...

'Lifelike' New Robots Deliver News, Chat You Up

Two humanoid robots on Wednesday made their debut as part of a new exhibit at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovati...

Cruise RP-1 Kit Transforms Regular Audis Into Driverless Cars

Cruise aims to spark a revolution among autopilot technology with a $10,000 accessory that consumers can use to create a self-driving car,...

Google I/O Offers Devs Big Bonanza

Google on Wednesday announced a plethora of opportunities for developers at its I/O conference. The upcoming version of Android, currently...

Now, anyone outside the US can have a USA phone number to verify any type of accounts

The cheapest Phone Verification Service: We provide USA phone numbers and only USA numbers For our clients for verification purposes...

Hands On With Google’s Incredibly Clever Cardboard Virtual Reality Headset

Each year at I/O, Google gives all of the developers in the audience a gift. Some years it’s a tablet. Some years it’s a laptop. This year? ...

Nokia X2 Mixes and Matches Android Apps, Windows Phone Services

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the launch of the Nokia X2, the first device to come out in Nokia's Android-based X line since Microsof...

All Things Appy: Top 5 iOS Utilities and Tools

While Apple's mobile operating system does hold users' hands when it comes to device management more so than competitor Android, t...

To Pay or Not to Pay - That's the Ransomware Question

Ransomware is a growing problem for consumers and businesses. In Symantec's most recent quarterly security report, the company's r...

Cruise RP-1 Kit Transforms Regular Audis Into Driverless Cars

Cruise aims to spark a revolution among autopilot technology with a $10,000 accessory that consumers can use to create a self-driving car,...

Somewhere Releases iPhone App For Sharing Your Work (Not Your Life)

Somewhere.com, which bills itself as a sort of pinterest for sharing your work (not your favorite knitting patterns), has now launched the i...

RainBird Opens Beta To Build Knowledge Base Platform

A startup with an intriguing API product has raised a small seed round of £330,000. RainBird is an API platform lets developers build knowle...

All Things Appy: Top 5 iOS Utilities and Tools

While Apple's mobile operating system does hold users' hands when it comes to device management more so than competitor Android, t...

Jenn Allen Retracts Michael Arrington Rape Accusations

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has reached a settlement agreement with Jenn Allen. He’s posted a copy of the agreement on his site Unc...

Heartbleed Flaw Goes Unpatched on 300K Servers: Report

Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remai...

To Pay or Not to Pay - That's the Ransomware Question

Ransomware is a growing problem for consumers and businesses. In Symantec's most recent quarterly security report, the company's r...

AirBnB Tests Group Travel Partnerships With London’s Citysocializer

AirBnB has signed what appears to be a new deal to offer ‘social group travel experiences’ to independent travellers. It’s partnered with ci...

All Things Appy: Top 5 iOS Utilities and Tools

While Apple's mobile operating system does hold users' hands when it comes to device management more so than competitor Android, t...

Heartbleed Flaw Goes Unpatched on 300K Servers: Report

Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remai...

Tide Turns in Favor of Crime-Fighting Smartphone Kill Switches

In the wake of overwhelming evidence that the kill switch Apple introduced in iOS 7 last year has reduced iPhone thefts, Google and Micros...

Should Everyone Learn to Code?

So the dog days of summer are upon us once again here in the northern reaches of the Linux blogosphere, and for countless young people out...

Apple Gets Ready to Tell Consumers Why They Want a Smartwatch

Apple reportedly is preparing to ship multiple versions of a smartwatch this coming fall, as competition increases in the wearable technol...

How Amazon's Fire Phone Will Beat the iPhone in 3 Years

Amazon launched its rather impressive Fire Phone last week, and it has a number of things that make it interesting -- but just as the iPho...

Intel (?) Gets Chat-Appy With Mood-Mimicking Avatars

Best known for its computer chips, Intel has ventured into new territory with Pocket Avatars, a mobile messaging app that uses animated ic...

Lego Fuses Physical and Virtual Gameplay

Lego fans are about to experience a new way to play with their favorite plastic bricks, both in the physical and virtual worlds. The compa...

CrunchWeek: Amazon’s Fire Phone, Facebook’s Slingshot, And Yo

This week Colleen Taylor, Kyle Russell, and myself sat around the round table to dig into the week’s news: Should we buy Amazon’s new Fire s...

Apple Gets Ready to Tell Consumers Why They Want a Smartwatch

Apple reportedly is preparing to ship multiple versions of a smartwatch this coming fall, as competition increases in the wearable technol...

Hardware Battlefield Finalist CubeSensors Raises A $700,000 Seed Round In Bitcoin

Bitcoins are everywhere these days! CubeSensors, a Slovenian hardware startup that is making mini environmental sensors for homes, has just ...

Intel (?) Gets Chat-Appy With Mood-Mimicking Avatars

Best known for its computer chips, Intel has ventured into new territory with Pocket Avatars, a mobile messaging app that uses animated ic...

LXQt Desktop Could Be a Real Beaut

If you like the economy of working in a lightweight desktop environment such as LXDE, you no doubt will love the tweaked performance of th...

Lego Fuses Physical and Virtual Gameplay

Lego fans are about to experience a new way to play with their favorite plastic bricks, both in the physical and virtual worlds. The compa...

Bright and Shiny Fire Phone: Amazon Delivers

Despite entering the smartphone world late, Amazon managed to double down with a user-focused infusion of technical innovation to deliver ...

Kima Invests In Pakistan-Based Startup Behind Groopic Photo App

The world just got that little bit smaller. The Pakistan-based startup behind Groopic, an iOs and Android app that ‘lets the photographer be...

The Maker Faire Gets the Obama Bump

Hopeful tinkerers and entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday on the White House lawn to showcase their innovative ideas at the Maker Faire. The ...

Dems Push Net Neutrality Against the Odds

Congressional Democrats this week took another go at Net neutrality. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

ForgeRock Raises $30M For Its Open Source Identity Platform For Enterprise

ForgeRock, a company with European roots (UK and Nordics) but now global operations, has become a player in what has become known as – tortu...

Researchers Find Android Security on Par With iOS

The open source Android operating system long has been considered by security experts to be the mobile OS most vulnerable to security thre...

Bright and Shiny Fire Phone: Amazon Delivers

Despite entering the smartphone world late, Amazon managed to double down with a user-focused infusion of technical innovation to deliver ...

Apple Edges Into Entry-Level Desktop Market

Apple is making a foray into the entry-level desktop market with the introduction of a lower-cost iMac. The 21.5-inch, all-in-one system f...

Facebook's Slingshot Draws a Bead on Snapchat

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours. That's the idea behind a new photo-sharing app Facebook released Tuesday for Andro...

If Amazon Builds It, Will They Come?

Amazon is poised to reveal its very first smartphone, and the rumor mill is in full swing. It's expected to include a 3D display, util...

Nest Offers Discounted, Wave-Less Smoke Alarm

Nest has returned its Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm to the market, less than one month after recalling 440,000 units because of ...

Pulsar Launches New Social Analytics Tools After Raising $2.3M

UK-based Pulsar, a social data analytics platform, has recently emerged as a smaller, but interesting new competitor to others in the field,...

UK Startup Blippar Confirms It has Acquired AR Pioneer Layar

Augmented reality startup Blippar has confirmed it has Layar, an AR pioneer which started in 2009. Terms were undisclosed in a blog post on ...

Spire Breath Tracker Helps Users Chillax

Spire on Tuesday kicked off preorders for its namesake new wearable device dedicated to promoting health by monitoring the wearer's br...

Ostrovok Raises New $12M Series C Round To Expand Outside Russia

Ostrovok.ru, the Russian accommodation booking startup, has announced a $12 million financing round investment led by Vaizra Capital Russia,...

Flying Drone Buddies Can Capture Your Amazing Exploits

There are two new crowdfunded projects that are building self-flying drones to follow you around and video your awesomeness. Geared for ad...

If Amazon Builds It, Will They Come?

Amazon is poised to reveal its very first smartphone, and the rumor mill is in full swing. It's expected to include a 3D display, util...

Nest Offers Discounted, Wave-Less Smoke Alarm

Nest has returned its Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm to the market, less than one month after recalling 440,000 units because of ...

SC to Mull Free Speech vs. 'True Threats' on Social Media

Are threats to people made on social media websites protected under the First Amendment? The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider tha...

Tesla's Patent Giveaway Fuels Electric Car Enthusiasm

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk threw the automotive industry into a tizzy last week, when he announced that he was throwing open the company...

Estimote, Knoll Partner To Bring iBeacons Into Office Space Planning

betaworks-backed Estimote has today announced a partnership with Knoll to bring its iBeacon platform to the office space planning company. E...

SavingGlobal Raises €7.5M To Disrupt European Savings Deposit Market

Due to a mostly bad economy, owners of savings deposits in Europe get dismally low interest rates. SavingGlobal launched, six months ago, is...

Flying Drone Buddies Can Capture Your Amazing Exploits

There are two new crowdfunded projects that are building self-flying drones to follow you around and video your awesomeness. Geared for ad...